May I have your attention please you can now book your train tickets on Uber and get

10% back in credits to spend on your next Uber ride so you don't have to walk home in the rain again.

Trains now on Uber. T's and C's apply. Check the Uber app. We don't treat ourselves.

Oh, we do treat ourselves with a meal out.

The Amex Platinum card with 300 pound global dining credit every year.

You can eat at the restaurants you've always wanted to try.

Representative 704.6% APRVE. eat at the restaurants you've always wanted to try.

Representative 704.6% APR variable.

Selected restaurants only annual fee.

Terms apply 18 plus subject to approval. On the 1st of September 1939, following the Nazi annexation of Poland, Britain declared

war on Germany and in a brutal conflict which spanned four continents and raged for six years and one day.

By the end of the Second World War, over 73 million people would be dead.

Being short on soldiers, the Military Training Act reinstated National Service,

and all healthy men aged 18 to 41 were conscripted into the Army, Navy and Air Force.

Although vital, conscription severely depleted Britain's emergency services, and even though

London's Metropolitan Police Force maintained a total of roughly 19,500 officers for the duration of the war.

Their numbers were bolstered by inexperienced reservists, special constables, and retired officers.

And with the already overworked police officers

burdened with new wartime duties,

including chasing deserters enforcing the blackout and

aiding the rescue effort after the Blitz with the crime rate in England, having increased from 303,000 defences per year in 1939,

to 478,000 offences in 1945, the depleted police force struggled to stem a new flow of crimes,

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